GRE Word List
SINECURE
an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income
The meaning of the word sinecure is an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| wreak | bring about |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| wry | twist |
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